BioSpace News Archive

An interim look at an ongoing study of 10,000 patients with no history of liver disease was conducted in community-based endoscopy centers by the Florida Research Institute (FRI), a global leader in disease research, and funded by Echosens, the makers of FibroScan, will be presented at the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) Annual Meeting, in Philadelphia, PA on October 9th, 2018.

In a recent panel session hosted by Chubb, “Becoming Cyber Smart at Home, Work and Wherever Life Takes You,” held in New York City, cyber industry experts from ADT, Carnegie Mellon University and CyberScout outlined a range of cyber threats facing individuals and small businesses in today’s connected world.

HealthpointCapital, the leading private equity firm focused exclusively on musculoskeletal healthcare, today announced the successful first closing at $100 Million of its fourth fund.

Personalis, Inc. today announced an extension to their contract with the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to sequence a further 34,000 whole human genomes for the VA’s Million Veteran Program (MVP). This brings the total of all Personalis contracts from the MVP to almost 80,000 human genomes.

Astellas today issued its third-annual Americas Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Report Card.

The global ADC therapeutics market is expected to grow to $4bn by 2023, with double digit approvals within 3-years, according to a new analysis in the CPhI Annual Report – the complete findings of which were released live at CPhI Worldwide in Madrid (9-11, October 2018).

Maravai LifeSciences, a leader in providing reagents to researchers, biotherapeutics manufacturers and OEM partners worldwide, today announced that it has hired Christopher Shaffer as senior director of oligonucleotide process development for TriLink BioTechnologies.

Technavio’s research report on the global cold chain logistics market for the pharmaceuticals industry forecasts the market to grow at a CAGR of around 7% during the forecast period.

Novitas Solutions, Inc. (Novitas) has been awarded a national contract by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to perform financial management activities for the Office of Financial Management (OFM) on the Exchange data produced by the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight (CCIIO).

ACG 2018 IBS Monograph reaffirms peppermint oil as a credible and viable option for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) but identifies heartburn as an issue.